Classroom Photos & June 12

Some kiddies and I rearranged my room last week and I wanted to give you a peek inside!  I posted similar pictures last summer, but now it's all in a new place!

 Here's the view from the door... set up and ready for my summer school kids!

 This is our meeting area.  I LOVE having my little people on their spots on the rug while we learn together!  Couldn't make it without my easel either!  

 Here's our library.  You can see our CAFE wall peeking out on the right and our poem of the week in the middle-ish.

 All about Michigan!

 I have lots of chapter books for enriching my readers during Daily Five.  The top shelf has books staked twice thick.  We love them!  On the bottom shelf, you can see my sight word kits from Lakeshore.  I believe they are not available anymore, but they are AWESOME.  If you can find them, you should buy them!

 Here's my small group area with my little easel, three-drawered containers in the back for my guided reading group materials, and other reading "stuff" on the shelf behind me.

This is that shelf with other reading "stuff".  I have my Treasures readers in bins on the bottom shelf (units 1 and 2 ready for the fall!), fluency readers, and word work things on the top shelf.

 This is my listening area.  I will be retiring the books on tape & tape player after summer school, as I'm hoping to get some iPod Nanos from my Donor's Choose proposal this summer.  It's the end of an era!

 Ok- colored bins are for my math workstations, the red pocket charts are for Daily Five choices, the three-drawered containers are for paper for the writing center, student mail boxes are black.  On the right, you can see my awesome pencil sharpener.  Those baskets hanging from the bookshelf on the right hold my homework for my 2 grade levels.  And there are some math things in bins on that bookshelf too.

Here's my math wall.  There's a pocket chart with vocabulary words that needs to get put up too- it's missing since the classroom rearranging!

 My students LOVE reading a book with a partner and then coming to this door to do a "somebody-wanted-but-so" summary!  You can find the cards in my Little Critter pack on TpT or TN.

 This is our partner reading "check for comprehension" basket.  Love the wands from Lakeshore!  Ms. Fiorini's fiction and non-fiction "Walk and Talks" are in here too and they are a FAVORITE!  In the bottom are comprehension eggs!

See this thing?  We love to sit on it to read... hence the messy blanket!  Next to it are hula hoops for students to have their own personal space while sitting inside of it and a pink folding beach chair for reading on which always causes drama at the beginning of the year as everyone wants to sit on it!

Now... lift the lid of this amazing wooden box and here's what is inside:

 

an absolute mess of bulletin board things!  No matter how often I clean this out or how neatly I put things away, it always looks like this when I open the lid!

So, there you have it!

On a side note- today is a special day!  It's my 8 year anniversary with my wonderful husband AND it's my grandma's birthday.  We were so very close and she died unexpectedly the year before my wedding, so to honor her forever, we got married on her birthday... and, just one more tidbit of knowledge, it was also she and my grandpa's anniversary!  :)  June 12 is a special day around here.

Here's what my hubby sent me while I was at summer school today:

So, we're going to go out for dinner tonight!  Yay!  Not sure yet where we're going... a restaurant in our area got a make-over from the Food Network Show "Kitchen Impossible" with Robert Irvine two weeks ago!  We talked about going there... so... maybe!